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Before the brothers had finished their meal Captain Banes was ashore, and an earnest conversation ensued about ways and means. "Let's see," said the captain; "what about your luggage and stores? You haven't much, gentlemen?" "Indeed, but we have," said Brace: "tons." "Oh, that's nothing." "I think you will say it is something when you see," said Brace.
'I should doubt, not a little only, but a great deal, before I took ye there, my chap, said Wandering Willie; 'for I am thinking it wad be worth little less than broken banes baith to you and me.
Round the far marches we gathered the wild shy wethers, seeing the dogs, paused as if to question the right of the intruders, and then bounded away like goats, and in my mind's eye I see yet the whitey-yellow wool where the wind ruffled the fleeces. Dan was very quiet that day, speaking seldom except to the dogs. "There's something no canny coming, Hamish," said he; "I feel it in my banes.
Galbraith, on whom the repeated pledges which he had quaffed had produced some influence, slapped his hand on the table with great force, and said, in a stern voice, "There's a bloody debt due by that family, and they will pay it one day The banes of a loyal and a gallant Grahame hae lang rattled in their coffin for vengeance on thae Dukes of Guile and Lords for Lorn.
But what gars ye gang daunerin' aboot this place? It's no yours ony langer. Ye suld gang hame to yer wife. She micht say a word to quaiet yer auld banes, for she's a douce an' a wice woman the mistress. Then followed a pause. There was a horror about the old woman's voice, already half dissolved by death, in the desolate place, that almost took from Robert the power of motion.
"Father, do you gae on, and let the young gentlemen bide a wee and rest their banes and tell a puir woman wha never gaes onywhere the news!" "Then do ye sit awhile, laddies, with the womenfolk," said Jarvis Barrow. "But give me pardon if I go, for I canna keep the kirk waiting." He was gone, staff and gray plaid and a collie with him. Jenny, his daughter, appeared in the door. "Come in, Mr.
"What hae ye, a puir hind, to do wi' the Baron o' Ballochgray? Turn, for the sake o' heaven! turn frae that living grave o' dry banes, an' the weary goul that sits jabbering owre them, by their ain light!"
"Very well, sir, I know how many banes makes five at any rate let me alone." "What do you mean, you varlet," said his master, "by that impudent wink?" "Wink?" replied Dandy, with a face of admirable composure. "Oh, you observed it, then? Sure, God help me, it's a wakeness I have in one of my eyes ever since I had the small-pock." "And pray which eye is it in?" asked his master.
But he was as heumble as he was fit, an' never teuk ony credit till himsel' for onything 'at he did or was; an' this she was ill pleased wi', though she cudna help likin' him, an' made nae banes o' lattin' him see 'at he wasna a'thegither a scunner till her.
For if ever the dead came back amang the living, I'll be seen in this glen mony a night after these crazed banes are in the mould. The mixture of insanity and wild pathos with which she spoke these last words, with her right arm bare and extended, her left bent and shrouded beneath the dark red drapery of her mantle, might have been a study worthy of our Siddons herself.
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